STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Mayor Bill de Blasio says the
Sanitation Department is out in full force -- and that he'll look into trouble
on Bard Avenue and throughout West Brighton.

Asked about Bard Avenue, particularly around Richmond
University Medical Center, by a CBS reporter, de Blasio said he had looked at
the work on Staten Island from a Sanitation Department operations center.

"We looked carefully at Staten Island given some of the
concerns I heard previously, given some of the concerns I heard yesterday from
the elected officials," de Blasio said. "I saw a number of real-time views of Staten
Island, and I thought in general there was some good work being done -- but let's
clarify, that's on the primary roads."

Those roads are what get New Yorkers to work, to hospitals,
and keep the city running, he said.

"Some of the streets up there are hilly, and that piece of
Bard Avenue...they're probably slippery," Doherty said.

He asked when the complaints came in, and was told around 1
p.m.

"We're working in the area, we're working in the area,"
Doherty said. "I would assume Bard Avenue is done, I don't know what's going on
over there."

He said crews were salting and plowing but that snowfall was
covering streets right back up after.

As for whether streets were bad enough for the city to
consider closing them, a question also posed by CBS, Fire Commissioner
Salvatore Casano said they only do that if they need to remove a car after an
accident.

"All of West Brighton is very hilly," he said. "We wouldn't
shut any streets without conferring with the NYPD. The only reason we would
shut a street is we had a car accident, we have to clear the car accident."

The mayor said there are 450 salt spreaders dispatched as
soon as the snow began, and there are now 1,500 Sanitation collection trucks
outfitted with plows on the city's streets.

The city made changes since facing major criticism for cleanup of the last storm, de Blasio said,
including allowing Sanitation to use NYPD cameras to see real-time conditions;
calling off garbage collection earlier so crews could be available for snow
removal, and using city employees and elected officials on the grounds as "scouts"
-- as well as monitoring social and traditional media.

"That's why I went out to Staten Island yesterday to talk
through what happened in the previous storm and learn from it, and I thought
there was a very, very cooperative attitude," he said. "I have to note, in the
case of Staten Island, a lot of people have felt over the years, over many
administrations, that City Hall was not responsive enough to them. It was very important
to me to say: 'We want to do better. We want to do better in partnership.' "